The study of international information and communication is interdisciplinary by its nature, and the curriculum at Fletcher emphasizes the political economy and policy perspective. Now I Know Who My Comrades Are is their story.International information and communication is a critical component of international affairs and at the heart of how people of different nations perceive the world and each other. Even as they navigate the risks of authoritarian life they feel free. They refuse to be intimidated by surveillance cameras or citizen informers. These activists write in code to outsmart censors and launch online campaigns to get their friends out of jail. This book introduces us to an army of bloggers and tweeters-generals and foot soldiers alike. Parker charts the rise of Russias Alexey Navalny from ordinary blogger to one of the greatest threats to Vladimir Putins regime. Here youll also find lesser-known bloggers as well as the back-stories of Internet activism celebrities. Star dissidents such as Cubas Yoani Sanchez and Chinas Ai Weiwei are profiled. It was an extraordinary moment in modern history-and Now I Know Who My Comrades Are takes us beyond the Middle East to the next major civil rights battles between the Internet and state control. In 2011 ordinary Egyptians many armed with little more than mobile phones helped topple a thirty-year-old dictatorship. Its a new phenomenon but one thats already brought about significant political change. In her groundbreaking book Now I Know Who My Comrades Are Voices from the Internet Underground Emily Parker formerly a State Department policy advisor writer at The Wall Street Journal and editor at The New York Times provides on-the-ground accounts of how the Internet is transforming lives in China Cuba and Russia. As one blogger put it Now I know who my comrades are. Online people discover that they are not alone.
Authoritarian governments try to isolate individuals from one another but in the age of social media freedom of speech is impossible to contain. And in Russia a lone blogger rises to become one of the most prominent opposition figures since the fall of the Soviet Union. In Cuba authorities unsuccessfully try to silence an online critic by sowing seeds of distrust in her marriage. In China university students use the Internet to save the life of an attempted murder victim.
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